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Salmon Rushdie’s Booker prize winning novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), is a story of a post-colonial India struggling to reconcile with its fragmented cultural and national identity, a story told allegorically through the life of Saleem Sinai. Rushdie’s unique language and the allegories of Saleem and...

The Monkey’s Paw is a story of suspense. The setting of “The Monkey’s Paw” is at the White family home on a dark, rainy evening. The White family is waiting for an old friend of Mr. Whites who is named Sergeant-Major Morris. Morris arrives after...

In numerous aspects, “The Monkey’s Paw” by W.W. Jacobs studies Mr. White’s remarkably convoluted character, one that transforms from being ultimately happy to one full of fear, guilt, loneliness and doubt. From the dark and stormy night that rages outside the family’s home in the...

Growing up in 1920’s and 30’s Romania, Eugene Ionesco experienced the uprising of the powerful Iron Guard movement before and during World War II. This in turn aided him with creating one of the most well-known pieces in the Theatre of the Absurd as the...

Christopher Marlowe is one of the most influential playwrights and blank verse dramatists of the sixteenth century. Though perhaps not as renowned in mainstream circles as some his contemporaries, Marlowe’s works have played a crucial role in the development and popularization of dramatic blank verse....

The US government has been tackling with the issues of teen childbearing for decades. However, non-marital childbearing is “three times as common for the poor”, in contrast to marriage rates have decreased overtime. According to the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, it shows that...

“I object to anything that divides the two sexes … human development has now reached a point at which sexual difference has become a thing of altogether minor importance. We make too much of it; we are men and women in the second place, human...